enjoyed another weekend at the top of the box office. The Sony release starring Tom Hardy added $26.1 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
It was a relatively quiet weekend for North American movie theaters . Charts were dominated by big studio holdovers, like 91ƵVenom 3,91Ƶ and 91ƵSmile 2,91Ƶ while audiences roundly rejected the Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and Robert Zemeckis reunion Thirty years after 91ƵForrest Gump,91Ƶ 91ƵHere91Ƶ opened to only $5 million from 2,647 locations.
91ƵVenom 391Ƶ only fell 49% in its second weekend, which is a notably small drop for a superhero film, though . In two weeks, the movie has made over $90 million domestically; The first two opened to over $80 million. Globally, the picture is brighter given that it has already crossed the $300 million threshold.
Meanwhile, Universal and Illumination91Ƶs continues to attract moviegoers even six weeks in (and when it91Ƶs available by video on demand), placing second with $7.6 million. That91Ƶs up 11% from last weekend. The animated charmer has made over $121 million in North America and $269 million worldwide.
91Ƶ91ƵThe Wild Robot91Ƶ has quietly been this absolute juggernaut for the fall season,91Ƶ said Paul Dergarabedian, the senior media analyst for Comscore. 91ƵFor that film to see an increase after six weeks is astounding.91Ƶ
91ƵSmile 291Ƶ landed in third place with $6.8 million, helping to push its worldwide total to $109.7 million.
The time-hopping 91ƵHere,91Ƶ a graphic novel that was adapted by 91ƵForrest Gump91Ƶ screenwriter Eric Roth, was financed by Miramax and distributed by Sony91Ƶs TriStar. With a fixed position camera, it takes audiences through the years in one living room. Critics were not on board: In aggregate it has a lousy 36% on Rotten Tomatoes.
91ƵIt was a slow weekend anyway, but it didn91Ƶt resonate in a way that many thought it might,91Ƶ Dergarabedian said. 91ƵThere are a lot of films out there for the audience that 91ƵHere91Ƶ was chasing.91Ƶ
Despite playing in almost 1,000 more locations, 91ƵHere91Ƶ came in behind Focus Features91Ƶ papal thriller which earned $5.3 million. Playing in 1,796 theaters, 91ƵConclave91Ƶ dropped only 20% from its debut last weekend and has made $15.2 million so far. Two Indian films also cracked the top 10 in their debuts, 91ƵBhool Bhulaiyaa 391Ƶ and 91ƵSingham Again.91Ƶ
Overall box office continues to lag behind 2023 by almost 12%. But holiday moviegoing will likely give the industry an end-of-year boost with titles like 91ƵGladiator II91Ƶ and 91ƵWicked91Ƶ on the way.
91ƵIn a couple of weeks, it91Ƶll get a lot more competitive,91Ƶ Dergarabedian said.
film a comedic drama about cousins on a Holocaust tour in Poland, launched in four theaters this weekend in New York and Los Angeles. It made an estimated $240,000, or $60,000 per screen, which is among the top three highest per theater averages of the year. Searchlight Pictures will be expanding the well-reviewed film nationwide in the coming weeks, going wide on Nov. 15 to over 800 theaters.
Box office charts don91Ƶt always paint a full picture of the moviegoing landscape, however. This weekend several relatively high-profile films playing in theaters did not report full grosses for various reasons, including the Clint Eastwood film Steve McQueen91Ƶs WWII film and the Cannes darling Netflix, which is handling 91ƵEmilia Pérez,91Ƶ never reports box office. Apple Original Films is following suit with 91ƵBlitz,91Ƶ a likely awards contender, which is in theaters before hitting Apple TV+ on Nov. 22.
91ƵJuror No. 291Ƶ is a Warner Bros. release, and a well-reviewed one at that. The film directed by Eastwood stars Nicholas Hoult as a juror on a murder case who faces a big moral dilemma. Domestic ticket sales were withheld. The studio did say that it earned $5 million from international showings, where it played on 1,348 screens.
Even major studios withhold box office numbers occasionally. Earlier this year, Disney did not report on the Daisy Ridley movie .91Ƶ Results were most notably withheld during the COVID-19 pandemic.
91ƵIt91Ƶs really up to the distributors,91Ƶ Dergarabedian said. 91ƵOften times the reason that certain movies may not be reported is that there91Ƶs a chance that the quality of the movie will be conflated with the box office number.91Ƶ
Final domestic figures will be released Monday. Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore, were:
1. 91ƵVenom: The Last Dance,91Ƶ $26.1 million.
2. 91ƵThe Wild Robot,91Ƶ $7.6 million.
3. 91ƵSmile 2,91Ƶ $6.8 million.
4. 91ƵCDzԳ,91Ƶ $5.3 million.
5. 91ƵHere,91Ƶ $5 million.
6. 91ƵWe Live In Time,91Ƶ $3.5 million.
7. 91ƵTerrifier 2,91Ƶ $3.4 million.
8. 91ƵSingham Again,91Ƶ $2.1 million.
9. 91ƵBeetlejuice Beetlejuice,91Ƶ $2.1 million.
10. 91ƵBhool Bhulaiyaa 3,91Ƶ $2.1 million.
Lindsey Bahr, The Associated Press